Journalists who depend on confidential sources should be alarmed that journalist Catherine Herridge has been ordered to pay $800 a day for not burning her sources. Congress must pass a strong shield law like the PRESS Act to protect journalists. Our statement 👇🏽

This is really good. For a while I was worried that they’d missed the entrenched skewing of any benefits by legacy telecoms, but they nailed it. Now we have everything bad about the legacy telcos plus the Musk Starlink pseudo-alternative.

BEAD was intended to give underserved communities billions of dollars for high-quality, future-proof fiber networks. But under Trump and a group of tech moguls, Build Back Better has been transformed into “tear down quickly.” Read more from @karlbode.com and @seangon.bsky.social: buff.ly/NmgmAPS

seemingly b/c they believe it will allow studios to better protect them. But why would studios do that? It seems like a risky bank shot to me, a kind of AI trickle-down economics where you give more power to the bosses and hope they drop some crumbs your way. What am I missing?

Over at @theverge.com, @seangon.bsky.social and I wrote about how billionaires hijacked a generational $42.5 billion program intended to dramatically improve internet access. Republicans stripped away all affordability and equity requirements, and are turning it into a slush fund.

I’m in Minnesota, which has its own cultural weirdness, but when I coached 6YO’s soccer team this spring, I had to pull the team aside after the first game and literally tell them, “if the other team has the ball, it’s okay to go get it.”

OCEANIA HAS ALWAYS BEEN VERY CLOSE TO A DEAL WITH EURASIA

What would the other U.S. presidents have thought about the White House’s fight night? @petridishes.bsky.social imagines the commentary:

Oh honey no they are not not not. John is right

CONGRATS AGAIN to "DREAM A LITTLE DREAM OF ME REIMAGINED" by Talissa Mehringer, an Honorable Mention, Internet Archive’s 2026 Public Domain Film Remix Contest 🏅 A music-film remix celebrating 1930s choreography & style. Full film ⤵️ archive.org/details/drea... #PublicDomain #PublicDomainDay

This book is so good, demystifying and MUCH needed.

How your email actually finds me.

This makes me wonder if Trump will get the truly earth-shattering level of boos that he deserves tonight at MSG. But I gotta have faith in my fellow New Yorkers. ❤️💪

"Actually, both the colonial and postcolonial co-exist- continue to exist within each other… a ‘time present of things past.‘ European linear time makes us think of progress as inevitable with its passage. In the words of Martin Luther King ‘Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability.'"

What Are We Donating To Goodwill?

Maple syrup is amazing because it’s just a socially acceptable way to drench a full plate of food in sugar water. Outstanding work Canada.

Pope Leo XIV: "true fulfilment is not achieved by eliminating weakness but through harmonious growth. It is found where freedom and responsibility are intertwined with mutual care and true solidarity, and where progress is measured by the dignity of each person and the good of all peoples."

Film teachers, if you have students who want to make a difference, Maggie Stogner’s Upstream Downriver Media’s new series, “Women Water Warriors” introduces us to amazing women working where they live for water we can drink. Great examples! www.youtube.com/@UpstreamDow...

Tony Mazzocchi was amazing, we were all lucky he was in the world. A man to remember, emulate, be inspired by.

Please, read the whole thread. TERRIFIC news for doc filmmakers everywhere!!

I would just like to nominate Numlock News for the Productivity Buster of the week.

just saw someone call Kash Patel “J Edgar Boozer” and need to lie down

Since @governor.ny.gov won't listen to working class New Yorkers, we found the only people she *does * listen to: The Rich. So take it from @patrioticmillionaires.org: taxing the rich's second homes is just the start. It's time to Tax The Rich and stop Trump's cuts for good.

This👇🏼. AOC is the only one stating it clearly and plainly. Do I have any faith that the American people will ever elect a woman president someday? No. I hope I’m proven wrong.

Today's winner of the Internet. Congratulations!

Yes, it's 4/20 but the sloths act like that every day

The human circulatory system, before and after proper cable management.

Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?

Hamilton Nolan, brilliant again, this time about Alex Karp/Palantir: www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/grievance-...

“viewpoint diversity” is a right-wing political project, as lisa siraganian explores in great detail here: www.aaup.org/academe/issu...

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto https://theonion.com/man-who-threw-molotov-cocktail-at-sam-altmans-home-claims-he-was-following-chatgpt-recipe-for-risotto/

Omelas already exists: no need to build it or choose it. We already live here –in the narrow, foul, dark prison we let our ignorance, fear, and hatred build for us and keep us in, here in the splendid, beautiful city of life...

This is how Bruce Springsteen opened his concert in Los Angeles last night. 🔥🔥 Footage from @margaret_nagle on Threads.

Pete Hegseth is practicing day drinking the right way. by Ezra Klein

Yes, celebrate software preservation!

Okay, can we have a moment for the Interimaginary Departures Gate at Austin’s airport?

Liberals like to talk about all the protesters who have been shot by ICE agents. But what about all the buildings that would’ve been blown up and all the governors that would’ve been kidnapped if the people who became ICE agents were unemployed and had more free time on their hands?

Yes and yes. And then having the new professionals patronize you in the same way the last ones did

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

You were moved to do this by pride and by hate. Is it any wonder the result was ruin?

Due to the overwhelming popularity of our animal birth announcements, we’ll be celebrating other important animal milestones, like animal graduation and animal divorce.

I feel like a fraud like 3 times a day and then I remember that Malcolm Gladwell exists

Say it, Sharon

‘Hey’ came before ‘hi,’ and ‘hi' came before ‘hello.’ ‘Hi’ is most likely a variant of ‘hey.’ ‘Hello’ is not related to either. Goodbye.

When this baby hits 88 miles per hour, you're going to get a ticket for throwing a smoke alarm out the window of your car.

Gavin Newsom, Kristi Noem Nod Silently To Each Other In Plastic Surgeon’s Office